the Bible appears to non-Christians. It is a totally inadequate view for Christian believers who accept that divine revelation is something more than human insight. Nevertheless, before we dismiss this view as a complete failure to grasp the reality of divine inspiration, we should observe that it does draw our attention to a very real human quality of the Bible as literature. Our total view of the Bible must take this human side into account. 3. A different kind of view is that the Bible is to be
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